Sustainability Policy and Practices

Catalog description

From environmental, social, political, and economic perspectives, this course explores environmental studies and sustainability. Focus includes the history of the environmental movement, biodiversity and ecology, and climate change science. Examining the impact, resiliency/adaptation, environmental laws and policy, and sustainable manufacturing add to the course. Finally, students explore social sustainability and environmental justice, life cycle analysis, green building, and other related matters. Topics covered include socio-ecological systems, critical theory, sustainable food production, and conservation agriculture. The course also covers energy generation, life cycle analysis of consumer products, and the social and environmental impacts across each life cycle stage. Other topics include circular economy principles, environmental law and policy, environmental justice, greenhouse gas emission accounting, and the implications of climate change.